The Evidences of the Christian Religion: To which are Added Several Discourses Against Atheism and Infidelity, and in Defence of the Christian RevelationClarendon Press, 1801 - 354 pages |
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... see if his testimony is not much more valid for that reafon . Had he continued a Pagan philosopher , would not the world have faid , that he was not fin- cere in what he writ , or did not believe it ? for if fo , would not they have ...
... see if his testimony is not much more valid for that reafon . Had he continued a Pagan philosopher , would not the world have faid , that he was not fin- cere in what he writ , or did not believe it ? for if fo , would not they have ...
Page 71
... see every day thofe events exactly accom- plished which our Saviour foretold at fo great a distance , that " his Gospel is " preached in all the world , " Matt . xxiv . 6 6 " " 14. that " his Disciples go and teach all " nations ...
... see every day thofe events exactly accom- plished which our Saviour foretold at fo great a distance , that " his Gospel is " preached in all the world , " Matt . xxiv . 6 6 " " 14. that " his Disciples go and teach all " nations ...
Page 73
... twenty years ago , and that it was attefted by all the inhabitants of Jerufalem , where they might still see the marks of it in the rub- bifh of that work , from which the Jews defifted bifh THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 73.
... twenty years ago , and that it was attefted by all the inhabitants of Jerufalem , where they might still see the marks of it in the rub- bifh of that work , from which the Jews defifted bifh THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION . 73.
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... . The learned Hea- then converts were astonished to see the whole hiftory of their Saviour's life pub- lished before he was born , and to find that the the Evangelifts and Prophets , in their accounts of the 80 THE EVIDENCES OF.
... . The learned Hea- then converts were astonished to see the whole hiftory of their Saviour's life pub- lished before he was born , and to find that the the Evangelifts and Prophets , in their accounts of the 80 THE EVIDENCES OF.
Page 116
... happiness hereafter ? Why should " we suppose that our hearing and seeing ' will not be gratified with those objects ' which are most agreeable to them , and ' which " 6 ' which they cannot meet with in these ' lower 116 OF GOD , AND.
... happiness hereafter ? Why should " we suppose that our hearing and seeing ' will not be gratified with those objects ' which are most agreeable to them , and ' which " 6 ' which they cannot meet with in these ' lower 116 OF GOD , AND.
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Page 98 - Behold, I go forward, but he is not there ; and backward, but I cannot perceive him : on the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him : he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him : but he knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.
Page 231 - And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?
Page 96 - We shall therefore utterly extinguish this melancholy thought, of our being overlooked by our Maker in the multiplicity of his works...
Page 137 - Such a nation might truly say to corruption, thou art my father, and to the worm, thou art my mother and my sister.
Page 93 - The chasm would be imperceptible to an eye that could take in the whole compass of nature, and pass from one end of the creation to the other...
Page 294 - I have set the Lord always before me : Because He is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: My flesh also shall rest in hope.
Page xvii - ... there were between God and our Saviour, in reference to his kingdom. We know not what need there was to set up a head and a chieftain, in opposition to " the prince of this world, the prince of the power of the air,
Page 252 - Their sound is gone out into all lands : and their words into the ends of the world. 5 In them hath he set a tabernacle for...
Page 115 - I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell ; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell : God knoweth ;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
Page 137 - THOSE who were skilful in anatomy, among the ancients, concluded, from the outward and inward make of an human body, that it was the work of a Being transcendently wise and powerful. As the world grew more enlightened in this art, their discoveries gave them fresh opportunities of admiring the conduct of Providence in the formation of a human body.